From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,66fae8c862b81b17 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.213.103 with SMTP id nr7mr3916851pbc.7.1352136174069; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:22:54 -0800 (PST) Path: 6ni63770pbd.1!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.glorb.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Copy vector in Ada Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:22:45 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <1aWdnbcg_8-BzAzNnZ2dnUVZ_j6dnZ2d@giganews.com> <559eb706-9bb1-496d-9034-1984d693531a@googlegroups.com> <5460fdc7-5490-4889-b771-67cc281c10c5@googlegroups.com> <6260a796-83c4-4ce5-88cb-8249846bc035@googlegroups.com> <10y91ckm54l57$.8u8bbq342u1b.dlg@40tude.net> <2164bc1a-a841-46ed-bfef-4ddcae4d64f7@googlegroups.com> <1ccf2169-418c-44b7-9d5a-b684a017fbe7@googlegroups.com> <1r3lpzblxy43h$.zytp8ur1bg27$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80Danr8LSk+wZCZOQUcJiA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.02 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Received-Bytes: 2286 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-11-05T18:22:45+01:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:20:44 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > There are lots of further questions about special treatment of copy > constructors, like whether one could introduce them later, e,g, promot= ing > limited types to non-limited Would make sense, with a derived type adding capabilities (similar comme= nt = with unknown discriminant). The proof it would make sense is that in a = package spec, you can change a limited to a non=E2=80=91limited, without= breaking = anything. > and demoting back. Back from non=E2=80=91limited to limited? This one is not cool. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity